I stumbled upon your site and found that your approach is directly transferable to the violin as well. I feel like I'm killing two birds with one stone, specifically regarding the FFCP. I've approached the violin this way for years out of necessity. It's much easier to approach technical passages in classical music as a succession of tetrachords as opposed to playing a sequence of individual notes if that makes sense. I began thinking this way after years of studying the method of Sevcik, specifically his trill studies and shifting the position books.

Anyways, I thought you'd perhaps find it interesting that contemporary jazz mandolin technique is supported by Czech classical violin pedegogy over 100 years old. If you every see one of his books in a sheet music store then I highly recommend flipping through them. You can adapt his patterns to Lydian and altered scales as well since he was thinking only in diatonic.

Thanks again and I look forward to supporting your site!

Best Regards,